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9 Happiness Myths & Tenets | Professor Ruut Veenhoven | 30
Emeritus Professor Ruut Veenhoven on how much of our happiness is genetic, what we can do to improve our happiness, whether richer nations are happier nations, why Scandinavian nations consistently rank as the happiest, and much more...
Professor Veenhoven is an Emeritus Professor at the Erasmus University, Netherlands. Professor Veenhoven is a sociologist, director at the World Database of Happiness, founding editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and one of the most cited researchers in subjective wellbeing.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:40 What is this thing called Happiness?
5:05 Myth 1: Happiness Set Point
7:10 Myth 2: Happiness is all Genetics
10:30 Myth 3: Impact Bias
14:20 Myth 4: Do we have Universal Needs and Wants?
22:50 Myth 5: How can we change our happiness?
32:45 Myth 6: If you don’t have a mental illness, you are happy
36:50 Myth 7: Richer Countries aren’t happier
43:40 Myth 8: Quality of Life doesn’t affect happiness
48:50 Myth 9: Emancipation of women hindered men
53:04 The future of happiness
Further Resources
The Happiness Indicator- https://www.gelukswijzer.nl/hi/
The World Database of Happiness- https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
Average Happiness in Nations Map https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur....
"Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?" (1978) by Brickman & Campbell
"The Easterlin Illusion: Economic growth does go with greater happiness" (2014) by Veenhoven & Vergunst
"The Nordic Exceptionalism: What explains why the Nordic countries are constantly among the happiest in the world" (2020) by Martela et. al.
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By Indi DissanayakeEmeritus Professor Ruut Veenhoven on how much of our happiness is genetic, what we can do to improve our happiness, whether richer nations are happier nations, why Scandinavian nations consistently rank as the happiest, and much more...
Professor Veenhoven is an Emeritus Professor at the Erasmus University, Netherlands. Professor Veenhoven is a sociologist, director at the World Database of Happiness, founding editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and one of the most cited researchers in subjective wellbeing.
To view other episodes of TMWBS on YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/@thementalwel...
To view short clips of TMWBS on YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/@thementalwel...
To listen to TMWBS on SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jT1...
To view TMWBS on INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/tmwbshow/
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:40 What is this thing called Happiness?
5:05 Myth 1: Happiness Set Point
7:10 Myth 2: Happiness is all Genetics
10:30 Myth 3: Impact Bias
14:20 Myth 4: Do we have Universal Needs and Wants?
22:50 Myth 5: How can we change our happiness?
32:45 Myth 6: If you don’t have a mental illness, you are happy
36:50 Myth 7: Richer Countries aren’t happier
43:40 Myth 8: Quality of Life doesn’t affect happiness
48:50 Myth 9: Emancipation of women hindered men
53:04 The future of happiness
Further Resources
The Happiness Indicator- https://www.gelukswijzer.nl/hi/
The World Database of Happiness- https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
Average Happiness in Nations Map https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur....
"Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?" (1978) by Brickman & Campbell
"The Easterlin Illusion: Economic growth does go with greater happiness" (2014) by Veenhoven & Vergunst
"The Nordic Exceptionalism: What explains why the Nordic countries are constantly among the happiest in the world" (2020) by Martela et. al.